Fedora System Compromised, But No Changes Made

The infrastructure of the Fedora Project was compromised over the weekend and an account belonging to a Fedora contributor was taken over by an attacker. However, Fedora officials said they don’t believe that the attacker was able to push any changes to the Fedora package system or make any actua...

Microsoft Windows RIS TFTP Service Writable Path (MS06-077; CVE-2006-5584)

The Remote Installation Service, RIS, is a Microsoft-supplied server that provides tools that facilitates the remote installation of Microsoft Windows. RIS requires that remote clients have a Preboot eXecution Environment PXE BIOS enabled to remotely execute boot environment variables. On Microso...

Oracle Sun JRE JPEGImageWriter.writeImage Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Sun's Java Runtime Environment. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page. The specific flaw exists in the processing of JPEG image...

OpenX Ad Server Flaw Exploitable

A critical security flaw in current and older versions of the popular open source OpenX ad server allows attackers to remotely compromise a server. Read the full article. The H Security...

Oracle Secure Backup Administration $other Variable Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable installations of Oracle Secure Backup. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists in the handling of variables to the propertybox.php script located on the Oracle Secure...

FreeBSD : png -- libpng decompression buffer overflow (edef3f2f-82cf-11df-bcce-0018f3e2eb82)

The PNG project describes the problem in an advisory : Several versions of libpng through 1.4.2 and through 1.2.43 in the older series contain a bug whereby progressive applications such as web browsers or the rpng2 demo app included in libpng could receive an extra row of image data beyond the...

[ GLSA 201006-21 ] UnrealIRCd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201006-21 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity:...

Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in CA ARCserve Backup and BrightStor ARCserve Backup

Overview The version of JRE shipped with CA ARCserve Backup and BrightStor ARCserve Backup is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code on the affected system. Solution Please refer to the 'Vendor Information' section for the official...

HP-UX, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX Remote Vulnerability - CVE-2010-1039

Dear List, I'm writing on behalf of the Check Point Vulnerability Discovery Team to publish the following vulnerability. Check Point Software Technologies - Vulnerability Discovery Team VDT http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/ rpc.pcnfsd syslog format string vulnerability CVE-2010-1039 INTRODUCTION...

Java: Java Web Start arbitrary command line injection

Unspecified vulnerability in the New Java Plug-in component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business JDK and JRE 6 Update 18 and 19 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors...

OpenJDK System.arraycopy unable to reference elements beyond Integer.MAX_VALUE bytes (6892265)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 18, 5.0 Update 23, and 1.4.225 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0095...

Medium security hole in Varnish reverse proxy

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Nth Dimension Security Advisory NDSA20090908 Date: 26th September 2009 Author: Tim Brown mailto:[email protected] URL: http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/ / http://www.machine.org.uk/ Product: Varnish 2.0.4 http://www.varnish-cache.org/ Vendor:...

png -- libpng decompression buffer overflow

The PNG project describes the problem in an advisory: Several versions of libpng through 1.4.2 and through 1.2.43 in the older series contain a bug whereby progressive applications such as web browsers or the rpng2 demo app included in libpng could receive an extra row of image data beyond the...

OpenJDK JAR "unpack200" must verify input parameters (6902299)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Pack200 component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 18, 5.0, Update, and 23 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors...

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer TextBytesAtom Record Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must open a malicious presentation. The specific flaw exists in the handling of...

ZDI-09-080: Sun Java Runtime Environment JPEGImageReader Heap Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-09-080: Sun Java Runtime Environment JPEGImageReader Heap Overflow Vulnerability http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-080 November 4, 2009 -- Affected Vendors: Sun Microsystems -- Affected Products: Sun Microsystems Java Runtime -- TippingPointTM IPS Customer Protection:...

Sun Java Runtime Environment JPEGImageReader Heap Overflow Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Sun's Java Runtime Environment. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page. The specific flaw exists in the processing of JPEG image...

Microsoft Windows Media Player Audio Voice Sample Rate Memory Corruption Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Windows Media Player. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious web page. The specific flaw exists in the handling of Windows...

[RISE-2009001] ToolTalk rpc.ttdbserverd _tt_internal_realpath Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

RISE-2009001 ToolTalk rpc.ttdbserverd ttinternalrealpath Buffer Overflow Vulnerability http://risesecurity.org/advisories/RISE-2009001.txt Published: June 19, 2009 Updated: June 19, 2009 INTRODUCTION There exists a vulnerability within a function of the ToolTalk database server rpc.ttdbserverd,...

Microsoft Office Excel QSIR Record Pointer Corruption Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Office Excel. Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious XLS file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of the BIFF file format used by Microsoft...